Countries worldwide have dramatically ramped up their climate policies over the past two decades. The number of climate ...

The announcement was a significant step in forging a European deterrent as Russia grows more aggressive and the U.S. steps back.

Enormous investments in artificial intelligence promised to transform Labour’s growth problems. The reality is much murkier ...

U.S. intelligence assessments reportedly indicate that Iran remains capable of reaching its main highly enriched uranium ...

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without even an attempt to build ...

Will the targeted killing in which Israel excelled – and is morally justified – return to haunt it as a threatening boomerang? The elimination of Iran’s leader may prove to be not merely a dramatic ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

In a hotel room in Santa Clara, Calif., five members of the AI company Anthropic huddled around a laptop, working urgently. It was February 2025, and they had been at a conference nearby when they ...

Six writers weigh in on what’s next for the country and its citizens as the war continues.

In 1991, a simple line appeared in Broom, a Lithuanian satire and humor journal. “A shortest joke: Communism,” it said. A one-liner to celebrate the collapse of the Soviet Union. Four years since ...

With artificial intelligence increasingly deployed in analysis and decision-making in armed conflict, research shows AI systems will not naturally default to ‘safe’ outcomes in nuclear crises.

China spent the last five years cultivating innovation and new technology at home. The next half decade will be dedicated to deploying the fruits of its labor to transform its economy – and its place ...